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by fwip 1y ago
Are you familiar with the concept of induced demand? It's often used in the context of road expansion, in which adding another lane increases the number of trips taken, and hence cars on the road. Often, traffic is often very similar t
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by fwip 1y ago
Sure, Tesla cars will be able to drive themselves next year for the last ten years.
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by fwip 1y ago
Yes, probably but I haven't done the math, yes, and yes.
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by fwip 1y ago
Using public transport is, statistically, safer than a private vehicle. It is often perceived as unsafe, but perception is not reality.
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by fwip 1y ago
Unfortunately, HN is YC-backed, and attracts these types by design.
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by fwip 1y ago
I like the idea, but it can't possibly be neutral. Both philosophically, and more concretely, it's run by Elon Musk, whose idea of neutrality is waaay to the right of the US Overton window. Not only is it trained on X data, which
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by fwip 1y ago
Thanks. This article appears to be no more than an AI-slop-summary of the official Google report (plus of course, some advertising tacked on).
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by fwip 1y ago
Chiming in - I've found the Pattern type in Unison[0] to be very nice to use. When you're just using the built-in patterns, it is similar to verbose regex. The real power of them is that it's easy to define, name, and re-use
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by fwip 1y ago
With complicated formulas, it often makes more sense and can give more guidance by first talking about the last operations to be applied. This seems to match the LLM structure, by starting by describing what we want, and then filling in the
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by fwip 1y ago
Sure, the same way LotR is not an allegory for WW1, but it's difficult to miss the connections, whether Tolkien intentionally placed them there, or simply because those themes were something he felt deeply about.
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by fwip 1y ago
> I'm pretty sure if you lived in Taiwan you would think very differently. This is precisely the point - it matters who the powerful people in your region are. For an American, the Chinese government has little ability and not much
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by fwip 1y ago
I don't think they change programs very often, and only very rarely in the middle of a project.
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by fwip 1y ago
From my personal judgment: definitely using AI for the code & commits, probably for the documentation, no idea about the design. For instance, no human would write this commit message, with the preformatted-code-block: https:/&#x2
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by fwip 1y ago
From a technical perspective, we can do that with a for loop. The reason we don't do it isn't because it's hard, it's because it yields worse results for increased cost.
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by fwip 1y ago
Are they actually proving correctness in the auto industry as a matter of course? My understand (could be out of date) was that there were a few partnerships with universities for a small part of the stack.
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by fwip 1y ago
I agree, it's tough to know when the right time to toss information away is, to simplify things for the caller. When in doubt, I tend to prefer "wrapper style" errors for libraries, so the caller can match at whatever level o
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by fwip 1y ago
t/log(t) is 'closer to' t than it is to sqrt(t) as t heads toward infinity. e.g: 4/log2(4) = 4/2 = 2 sqrt(4) = 2 2^32/log2(2^32) = 2^32/32 = 2^27 sqrt(2^32) = 2^16
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by fwip 1y ago
The approach with the `error_set` crate lets you unify the error types how you like, in a declarative sort of way. If you want to always treat FileNotFound the same way up top, that's totally doable. If you want them wrapped with type
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by fwip 1y ago
Sure, but it depends on what you consider to be "natural processes," and what you don't. The oxidation of sitting on a plastic^W vegan leather couch is not a "natural" process, but sitting on wood probably is. It&#x
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by fwip 1y ago
This looks nice, especially for a mature/core library. If your API already maps to orthogonal sets of errors, or if it's in active development/iteration, you might not get much value from this. But good & specific error t
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by fwip 1y ago
Note that those rebates would be entirely killed under the current Trump budget bill [1], so we'll see what happens. I also love the concept, it's a bunch of things I've been looking for but unable to find in the US market. T
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by fwip 1y ago
Not sure why you got downvoted. The researchers state: “If we buy a sofa from major furniture company, it’s tested for harmful emissions before being put on sale. However, when we sit on the sofa, we naturally transform some of these emissi
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by fwip 1y ago
At very large numbers, even ratios don't really matter. For instance, if you personally owed $100 trillion, you wouldn't be much relieved by a court order that reduced your liability by 99%. Or, if you're looking at numbers i
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by fwip 1y ago
If I'm reading correctly, the bug is in the car's audio control system.
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by fwip 1y ago
I guess I don't understand why you so strongly believe that CuriouslyC's comment reflects an uninformed opinion without any basis in fact. I see somebody saying something on here, I tend to assume that they have a reason for belie
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by fwip 1y ago
Right, of course, but I don't see any evidence from which to assume that they're picking "willy nilly."
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by fwip 1y ago
Why? We've all seen organizations in which some things happen because of the CEO, and others happen in spite of them.
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by fwip 1y ago
Sometimes after it flails for a while, but I think it's on the right path, I'll rewind the context to just before it started trying to solve the problem (but keep the code changes). And I'll tell it "I got this other guy
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by fwip 1y ago
When they're not modifying the tests to match buggy behavior. :P
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by fwip 1y ago
My own opinion, which is admittedly too harsh, is that they don't really know what they want to say. That is, the prompt they write is very short, along the lines of `ask when this will be done` or `schedule a followup`, and give the L

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